Schools for Scandal

Updated Dec. 4, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

The growing scandal has so far cost the department's most senior bureaucrat his job and seen another former bureaucrat and a nursing-home developer arrested. It must be wrenching for any presumably advanced society to have to go through yet another tale of corruption involving senior officials, but if the latest revelations add urgency to the campaign to clean up the nation's politics, then these incidents may be seen as good news indeed.

This isn't a Whitewater editorial, and it isn't about Democratic fund-raisers working...